You argue rightly enough Sir.  For, from the writings of Philosophers, this Art of Arts is most rarely learned; but the Sense them is very well, and clearely understood by the Manuduction of some Adept Philosopher.  But let us hence pass to the Transmutative Effect of this most noble Tincture, touching which, the possessors, or many of the Adept, have written many Books, and the most of their Genuine Disciples, labouring much in the Fire, did at length compleatly attain to the wished End of their Arcanum,

Physician

I perceive your Mastership takes pleasure in passing from the use of the Medicine, to the infinite Transmutation of Metals.  Although I could easily believe the possibility of Art, viz. that a Chymical Experiment of that kind was in the Adept, as I have also made mention above, touching that Experiment of Dr. Kifflerus who, with the Tincture of one ounce of Gold transmuted 1 ounce & half of Silver into the best Gold, not to mention the Experiment of Helmont; nor of Scotus, which he made in the most famous Cities of Colonia, and Hanovia; nor much to insist on that illustrious, and well known Example, manifested at Prague, before Caesar Ferdinando the third, himself; where with one only grain of the Tincture, three pounds Mercury were transmuted into most noble Gold; insomuch that I am brought no less into a neccessity, than into a Will of believing, that the Art may be true; yet I cannot to this hour sufficiently receive it without some doubt, because with these my Eyes, I never in all my Life saw the Man, who was the true possessor thereof.

Artist.

Sir, you say true? yet Art will be Art, whether you can believe it or no.  Even as is seen in the Magnet.  How it by its own insited Sulphureous Virtue, of Iron, by Contact presently makes a Magnet.  Although you will not believe, that such wonderful Operations are latent in it, yet they are, and will remain true.  So also you should Judge of the Stone of Philosophers, in which is all that the Wise seek.  And because the clouded Writings of them, can be understood, and explained but by very few, it is to be desired earnestly by all, and with the hands it must be endavoured, that some one General Epitomen of the whole Art, may so be made, as in a very short space of time, and without much labour, all things necessary may be gathered, by the help of which, a most easy Transition to real Authors, might be effected.  Now since you have presented some few Examples, by which you endeavour to assert the confirmed possibility of the Matter; I my self will here shew to you the True Matter of Secret Philosophers.  Behold it!  Look well, upon it.

Physician.

So my Master, Is this Sulphureous, and Yellow Glassy Substance the very Philosophick Matter?  And are you your self the Possessor of this Science?  I am ready to believe you do but jest with me.  I pray Sir, tell me the Truth, whether it be really so, or not?

Artist.